A woman associated with a self-help group programme was allegedly raped in Bihar’s Begusarai, with the police arresting the accused while he was trying to flee to neighbouring Nepal.
Sahni and Kumar have been arrested. In a complaint to the police, the woman alleged that she was raped at knifepoint a hotel on September 27.
She said was collecting loan repayments from women associated with JEEViKA self-help groups in her locality on September 27 when she encountered her neighbour, Vikram Kumar Sahni, who “tricked” her into getting onto his motorcycle. The woman said she somehow managed to escape from the hotel and returned home. She said she narrated the incident to her family and filed a police complaint. The police said the CCTV footage of the hotel showed the woman entering the hotel alone. “During investigation, the CCTV footage showed that the primary accused, Rohit Kumar, went alone to room number 203 of Hotel Blue Diamond at 07:01 am, and the complainant went to hotel at 07:33 am,” the police said in an official statement on Tuesday evening. She entered the hotel alone, and met Kumar on the second floor, the police said, adding that both “entered the room together”.
